Hungarian Orchestra: We’re Folding

The Hungarian Symphony is on tour in Florida. But after a concert over the weekend, “conductor András Ligeti raised his hands to silence the applause and said that due to a loss of funding, the 100-year-old Budapest-based orchestra would be folding. He thanked the audience for their attention, asked them to retain the memory of this fine orchestra, then turned and led the ensemble in a final encore, the famous Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5.” Well, maybe not ‘folding’, but…